1. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Exploring the Adoption of the International Information Security Management System Standard ISO/IEC 27001: A Web Mining-Based Analysis

    In the light of digitalization and recent EU policy initiatives, information is an important asset that organizations of all sizes and from all sectors should secure. However, in order to provide common…

  2. ZEW Newsletter // 2020

    2020-01

    1. News
    2. Call for Papers
      • Ninth Mannheim Energy Conference
      • Workshop on Taxation and Informality
      • ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies
    3. Personalia
      • Awards
      • Gu…
  3. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Different counselors, many options: Career guidance and career plans in secondary schools

    Career guidance assists students with the school-to-work transition. Based on a survey conducted in secondary schools in Germany, we analyze career guidance activities and how these affect career plans. The…

  4. China Economic Panel (CEP) // 2020

    January 2020

    • Economic Expectations for China Stagnate: Slightly Negative Outlook for 2020: CEP Indicator Stands at Minus 8.7 Points
    • 46 analysts participated in the January survey, which was conducted during the period 13…
  5. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2020

    Februar 2020

    • Die Trendwende ist da, aber weiterhin nur geringes Wachstum
    • Eurozone: Konjunkturerwartungen hellen sich auf
    • USA: Experten blicken optimistischer in die Zukunft
    • Japan: Konjunkturausblick verbessert sich zu…
  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-003 // 2020

    The Digital Layer: How Innovative Firms Relate on the Web

    In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Digital Layer to empirically investigate inter-firm relations at any geographical scale of analysis. The Digital Layer is created from large-scale, structured web…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-002 // 2020

    Mitigating the Tradeoff Between Proportionality and Accountability in Electoral Systems: Evidence from the Italian Senate 1994 – 2006

    First-past-the-post elections in single-member districts make legislators more accountable to their district of election compared to proportional electoral systems. Accountability makes politicians more…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-001 // 2020

    Gender Norms and Income Misreporting Within Households

    We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on…

  9. Refereed Journal // 2020

    Low-Powered vs High-Powered Incentives: Evidence From German Electricity Networks

    We propose a difference-in-differences approach to estimating the impact of incentives on cost reduction in the context of German electricity networks. When subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism,…

  10. Expertises // 2020

    Länderindex Familienunternehmen - Standortfaktoren in Emerging Markets

    The country index Emerging Markets focuses on the characteristics and risks of emerging markets as investment locations for family enterprises. This alignment makes it a perfect complement to the existing…